Maureen Stanton is the author of Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019), and Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting (Penguin 2012), winner of a Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction. Her nonfiction has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. She’s received an Iowa Review prize, Pushcart Prizes, the American Literary Review nonfiction award, the Penelope Niven Nonfiction Award from Salem College Center for Women Writers, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maine Arts Commission, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Author visit. Copies of this book will be available to purchase at this event. Signing will follow the book talk.